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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBD, OHEOOM TUWU At, AfHU. M. IMS Influenza Cases Top Week's List Influenza, with 132 cases, topped the list oi communca ble diseases reported to the Jackson county health depart ment for the week ending April 2S, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, director. A total of 193 cases of com municable diseases were re ported during the week. The influenza was reported in Med ford 71, Ashland 16, Cen tral Point 20, Shady Cove 15, and Phoenix 10. Measles - Medford and Cen tral Point 9 each and Gold Hill 11 - accounted for 29 cases. German measles were reported in Medford 3 and Ashland 7. Other diseases reported were chicken pox - Medford 3 and Shady Cove, Ashland and Central Point, one each -gonorrhea 2, mumps - Med ford 4, Gold Hill l and Cen tral Point 9 - and infectious hepatitis, one case each in Gold Hill and Medford. Mother Sentenced On Welfare Fraud Portland - (IIM - A mother of eight children was sent to prison for welfare fraud Mon day. Circuit Judge Virgil Lang try sentenced Mrs. Dorothy June Becker, 40, to a maxi mum term of three years. The judge said he hoped the pun ishment would serve as "an example" to her children. The state claimed the wom an drew welfare funds while also drawing unemployment compensation, working at var ious jobs and receiving a $2,400 settlement from an au tomobile accident. She was found guilty by a jury in February. Judge Langlry said he had dealt with the family for a number of years while he was a Juvenile Court judge and aid six of Mrs. Becker's eight children had been referred to Juvenile Court. m m , mti , Li j Wjfr 39 . i1jB':"""': 1 IB xH aaJasal &a 4&sMaBI V I 1' - i At Builders Supply QUALITY CMmMy BLOCKS sV 727 W, McAndtt wt FHONI 77J-4S71 SUIT NAMES ACTOR -Deanna Fish, 22, above, and six other persons are seeking $105,000 damages in a suit against Academy Award winning actor Gregory Peck. The group claims that Ihey were injured when the actor's car allegedly triggered a multi-car collision on the San Bernardino Free way Dec. 12, 1962. (UPI) Two Teachers To Attend Seminar Two southern Oregon high school journalism teachers have received summer study grants, it was announced by The Newspaper Fund in New York City, The teachers, to attend a seminar at the University of Oregon, are Mrs. Jane Collins Riggan, Illinois Valley High school. Cave Junction, who lives on Backachers ranch. Officers Elected by Downtown Merchants Mrs. VerNetta Brainerd was reelected president of the Downtown Medford Mer chants group at its meeting Monday morning at the Jack son hotel. Others elected were Donald Ford, first vice president; Ben jamin Trowbridge Jr., second vice president; Robert Stew art, secretary, and Chester Irish, treasurer. Sclma, and Hugh F, Friel, St. Mary's High school, Medford, who lives at 2784 Valley View id., Ashland. Teachers from 46 states, Washington, D.C., and the Philippine Islands have re ceived the study fellowships. Under the program, the teach ers will spend up to 12 weeks studying scholastic and pro fessional journalism problems and techniques. The fellowships pay ail ex penses for tuition, fees, books, room and board and a large share of the travel expenses. Grants from the Wall Street Journal make the program possible. LOTTERY BILL SIGNED Concord, N.H. - fOTB - Demo cratic Gov. John W, King to day signed into law a bill establishing a state-operated sweepstakes in New Hamp shire, the first m the nation since 1894. Clarence Gladden Observes 10 Years as Head of Penitentiary Salem - Wt - Just 10 years ago this month Clarence T. Gladden, a grey-haired, 23- year veteran of the U.S; Bureau of Prisons, took over as warden of the State Peni tentiary. Gladden was hired after a special investigating team of three prison wardens found the convicts in virtual control and the guard force demoral- Grange News Happy Camp Grang During the last meeting of the Happy Camp Grange, Home Economics Chairman Mrs. Bernice Sutciiffe an nounced the net proceeds of the basketball championship dinner. According to Mrs. Sutciiffe, the net proceeds for the ham dinner served by the Home Economics club in honor of the elementary school basket ball team and cheerleaders amounted to $30. Mrs. Sut ciiffe also announced that the Home Economics district meeting is scheduled at the Greenview Grange hall May 17. Master James Tristan obli gated the new member Mrs. LaVonne Walters in the first and fourth degree. Treasurer Mrs. Phil Tole man explained briefly advan tages of the Grange Credit Union and Grange Health In surance, and suggested a representative from each de partment be invited to speak at one of the meetings to ex plain in detail the advantages and benefits of both. For the lecturer's hour a poem entitled "Spring in Your Hearts" was read by the chap lain Mrs. Jack Fiteer. A piano solo "Minuet in G Major" by Bach was played by seven-year-old Stan Tristan. Jayne Mansfield To Obtain Divorce Dallas, Tex. MPS- Actress Jayne Mansfield left Dallas ioday for Juarez, Mexico, to obtain a divorce from former Mr. Universe Mickey Hargi tay. Mrs. Harry L. Peers, Miss Mansfield's mother, said her daughter was flying to EI Paso and then would cross the in ternational border to obtain the divorce. Mrs. Peers said she believed "everything was set" for the divorce to be granted today. Miss Mansfield and Hargt tay were married Jan. 13, 1958, at Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. She had previously been married to Paul Mansfield, Dallas. That marriage ended in divorce Jan. 11, 1958. ized. Discipline due is part to political meddling, waa so bad that guards walked in groups for self-protection within the walls. Gladden, looking back on the day he took over, says now: "It waa chaos. "Certain inmate were in the saddle. Their Mends were well taken care of. The rank and file wasn't getting proper food or clothing. "There was no training pro gram for officers ... no or ganization within the walls." Wardaa Acts Backed by three experts borrowed from the federal prison system, Gladden moved to create order. He coaxed 10 additional of ficers and more administrative help from the legislature and set up a training program. Guards began to clamp down on the undisciplined prison ers. Four months later, the word went out along the convict grapevine. Gladden was to be put to the test. Convicts rioted, set fire to building and filing taunts and demands at guards and state policemen who rimmed the high cement wall Tinging the prison. The new warden ordered most of the rinters sealed in the prison yard. They sat and shivered and sweltered and thirsted for three days. The riot collapsed. Chidden says today those three days of rioting did more to clear the air and establish order than could have been accomplished in several years. While the prisoners rioted, guards swept the celiblocks clean. One hundred trucktoads of weapons, furnishings and junk were hauled away. The contraband included knives, saws, tools, ball bats, clubs, and even sewing machines, typewriters and overstuffed furniture. Gone also was the "Boss Con," a convicted robber who, as chief prison clerk, boasted he held more power than the warden. The tired and defeated riot ers came back to a new spar tan existence. The prison program now is designed to instill good work habits and to equip prisoners for their return to society, "The convicts know what we expect from them. And they know what to expect from us," Gladden says. "They realize that they will be treated like decent human beings, but they are expected to behave in a decent and respectable manner." Escapes from prison details have dropped from 4G to 50 a year to three or four. Tight security has broken up inmate goon squads, and Gladden bojls only one secreted knife has been found in years. The prison farm, where in mates once stole eggs to oper ate their own egg route to the nearby Turner community, has been put on a productive basis. Last week the State Senate approved a measure to allow Gladden asd other heads of state institutions to, stay , on beyond retirement age at the The t4yiTa prison pert, brought la OragM as a on the job for tome Ujoe. 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